>AI generated video literally unrecognisable from real.

What?? Not even close

You may be thinking of video you saw generated last month.

I think the tells of AI video are becoming more subtle, similar to language. It's no longer so much that the visuals are categorically impossible, such as mangled hands or impossible geometric arrangements of objects, but you can still see style and composition that is more frequent in AI video (but could be possible in a real video as well in principle).

Such as higher production quality, too beautiful people, a kind of stock photo sheen, etc. Of course if you use special LoRAs or prompts and input images, it's possible to leave the stock footage style, but most people don't bother with it, just like most people use stock ChatGPT in its default voice with its favorite trope-filled cadence etc.

>Any guarantee given by AI companies is void since it can be changed in a day,

Given by anyone, actually.

But what really AI safety is?

Censorship?

Binary formats are painful to deal with from user perspective

Sane for 3rd party devs

Hazard a guess that serializing demented data structures into something text encoded like json or yaml or XML/SOAP is no less painful than a straight binary representation aside from unfamiliarity of tooling to reason about and arbitrarily query the structure, like jq, lq, etc.

But when things go wrong, you can usually find some random json file and adjust it :)

Gamers are important because they are consistent customers. Crypto buying of GPUs is done (anyone still in this area is buying ASICs). Meanwhile gamers are still buying GPUs - they do sometimes hold off when the economy doesn't allow, but you can trust that gamers will continue to buy GPUs to play their games and thus they are a safe investment. It is rational to sell CPUs to a gamer for much less than someone in crypto because the gamer will be back (even if the gamer "grows up" there are more replacing them). Thus gamer is an important group while crypto is not.

The above was their prediction during the crypto boom and it turns out correct. I'm not sure how AI will turn out, but it isn't unreasonable to predict that AI will also move to dedicated chips (or die?) in a few years thus making gamers more important because gamers will be buying GPUs when this fad is over. Though of course if AI turns out to be a constant demand for more/better GPUs long term they are more important.

Gamers are not the only important GPU market. CAD comes to mind as another group that is a consistent demand for GPUs over the years. I know there are others, they are all important.

I think they're just a proxy/alias for 'state-of-the-art personal computing'.

State of art? 1-2k usd hardware? Haha, data center stuff is orders of magnitude crazier

I’d rather prefer that the average Joe has a good entertainment system than our corporate overlords has a good surveillance system.

The growth curve of technology has always pointed at the world becoming tiny and non-private.

Disagree.

Mass surveillance by corporations can be outlawed. Just because something is possible, doesn’t mean it must be necessarily so.

I travel a lot for work to different nations. The cultural differences are stark.

In the UK for example, they love their CCTVs. In Switzerland, they’re only allowed where they are deemed necessary.

I mean back in the cold war we started losing privacy to foreign governments. A parade of overhead satellites is capturing everything you do all the time.

As much as we expound about the rule of law, might makes right if the population isn't vigilant. Simply put technology gives capability. In 1900 we didn't have the capability to monitor everything that everybody did all the time and keep those records their entire life. Now we have technology that can do just that.

This has nothing to do with the law. Zip, zilch, nada. Switzerland is one dark day away from having all their behaviors recorded by businesses/governments.

At the end of the day legality is a theoretical construct, and technological capability is reality.

There are hardly satellites that capture everything I do.

> A parade of overhead satellites is capturing everything you do all the time.

Kessler syndrome on the way to the rescue.

Why not skip linker at all and generate single optimized exe file?

In fact it generate single optimized exe files, but it does in multiple steps for multiple reasons, one of them is separation of concerns, but also, one of the main reasons is speed. The linker is linking (normally statically linking) different already build cached libraries, including the runtime. Without the linking ability, you would need to compile everything every time. Not only that, the linker has other responsibilities, like building some metadata that goes into the binary, for example the dynamic dispatch table.

It doesnt help that many services use a few domain names, bonus points if other ones look like from scam domain examples

Yes, because Apple can do it at scale.

Teams are decent, wdym?

Inb4: I've used ventrilo,team speak, mumble, discord, Skype.

It looks like you only use a tiny fraction of Teams' functionality. I agree, there's little to complain about when using it for IM/voice/video calls. When you start using it for other things, especially the enterprise features, it is bad. It is a resource hog, handles navigation poorly, has poor default settings, finding installed apps can be tough, etc.

> handles navigation poorly

My current pet peeve: I’m often going back to the previous week on Monday to fill out my time sheet. So, I open the chat for a meeting last week to see how long it took, fill it out, and hit the calendar icon in teams and I’m back on the current week. It’s a painful UX flow that I’ve now built in to my brain, so help me god if they fix it.

Note that teams does include a “back” button, and also note that it doesn’t give a flip about state - it knows you were just at the calendar but doesn’t care where, so you’re back on the current week